
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A satire on the Indian politics. The book describes an extreme underbelly of the Indian politics. While in public, the politicians ban dance bars and firewall pornography sites in the internet they themselves harbour and encourage the existence of high end prostitution establishments which caters to them and the others in power and in the money.
These houses serve as a place where alliances are forged and poll strategies are drawn amidst the orgies that happen around. The owners of these houses are secretly taping the happenings in these dark rooms as a safeguard for their flourishing trade.
The lame duck president who is an yes man to the Party President maintains his distance from these houses. A political broker has papers on the key politicians and has hidden it away. He is old and is losing his mind thanks to a disease that he has contracted early in life, but one which has started manifesting at his late age. The political parties want the doctor who diagnosed him to be bumped off and they use their connections with the underworld don to bump him off.
An OK read, but one will miss nothing if one gives the book a miss.
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